To say that music and musicians have been an integral part of the 2008 Obama presidential campaign would be an understatement. In addition to obvious efforts like will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” song and video, many people may not be aware that in collaboration with the Obama campaign, Steve McKeever and his team at Hidden Beach Records put together the first-ever official political soundtrack album. This unprecedented compilation album had the overwhelming support and participation of many superstar recording artists spanning all genres of music such as John Legend, Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Ritchie, Kanye West, Bebe Winans and Dave Stewart and more. There were so many great submissions, over 150 songs in a one week time, that the label and the campaign had a very tough time deciding what to finally include on the album. It was originally produced as a fundraiser for the Obama campaign, but it was unfortunately released just after the anti-Obama “celebrity” campaign launched and as the financial crisis was hitting. So at the time the album did not receive the attention it deserved. With the campaign now behind us, this musical cry for “Change” can now be enjoyed as a celebration of President-elect Obama and cherished by future generations as a memento of his historic candidacy.
By clicking on the MagNet player below, for the first time you can sample – and buy – the album right here on the Huffington Post. And if you buy the album here, you will also get a bonus track not previously available which is exclusive to the Huffington Post edition. It’s a new song called “Obama Rock” by The Not So Silent Majority, a collective of musicians and artists including Danielle Brisebois (writer/producer of Natasha Bedingfield’s “Unwritten” and “Pocketful Of Sunshine”, Paul McCartney’s guitarist Rusty Anderson, Rick Nowels (writer of Dido’s “White Flag”) and Gregg Alexander (writer of Santana’s “Game Of Love” and New Radicals’ “You Get What You Give”) as well as many other musicians. Hidden Beach is planning on releasing an Obama Soundtrack Vol. 2 in the new future with a lot of the great music that they wanted to put on this album so stay tuned. In the meantime, enjoy! For more information go to hiddenbeach.com
America, Just super-focused. Really focused. Really, extremely focused, until the end… comprised of many states, in love with country. New solution, to the same old problems. Now, Focused on the conclusive win.
With wins in Ohio and Pennsylvania, Barack Obama has likely to won the presidency by a decisive margin, with the potential of carrying almost all the battleground states. He will be the nation’s first black chief executive.
Exit polls showed fears about the economy eclipsing all other issues, a development working decisively to the advantage of Democrats up and down the ticket. Polls in the continental U.S. are to close at 11 when the networks will formally call the race.
To see more coverage of the incoming numbers… look below:
NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – “Saturday Night Live” continues to go on a ratings tear, thanks in part to another appearance by Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Chris Parnell as presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer. “SNL” was the highest-rated program of the night on broadcast TV.
The show averaged a 6.0 overnight rating/15 share in the metered markets, Nielsen Media Research said Sunday afternoon. That’s up 46 percent from the 4.1/10 of the previous season’s third telecast, on October 13, 2007. It also marks a ratings gain of 52 percent compared with the first three episodes of last season, which began later than “SNL” did this year. It’s been a hot season so far for the show, which three weeks ago scored its best premiere since 2001. Saturday night’s host was actress Anna Faris (”The House Bunny”), and the musical guest was Welsh singer-songwriter Duffy. -Reuters/Hollywood Reporter
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards stunned the nation with his televised confession Aug. 8 that he had an extramarital affair. Battling cancer that her doctors call incurable, his wife, Elizabeth, issued a statement in support of her husband – but how is she really doing? “There was anguish – excruciating anguish – for her in dealing with this,” Elizabeth’s best friend Hargrave McElroy tells PEOPLE in its new issue. Behind the public show of strength, the Edwards’ household has been a scene of turmoil and tension since John, 55, first began revealing the truth about his affair with former campaign aide, Rielle Hunter, 44, after the formal launch of his campaign in the final days of 2006. “He told the truth slowly,” according to one source close to the couple. Elizabeth, 59, faced an agonizing choice: “Do I kick him out, or do we have a 30-year marriage that can be rebuilt?” says McElroy. The fact that she suffers from a terminal disease, one that could rob her children – Jack, 8, Emma Claire, 10 and Cate, 26, a student at Harvard Law School – of their mother, weighed heavily in her decision. “She couldn’t say, ‘Well, maybe we’ll work through this for years, or maybe we should separate for two years,’” adds Elizabeth’s best friend. “[The cancer] forced her to choose whether to move forward.” The Edwardses have not, at least so far, sat down with their younger children to discuss the scandal. “The kids are, to a certain extent, oblivious,” Elizabeth’s brother Jay Anania tells PEOPLE, “but children are very wise and know things.”
Meanwhile from The Huffington Post, the former editor in chief of Star Magazine Bonnie Fuller spoke out on Elizabeth Edwards part in the affair.
How could she have possibly believed that her husbands affair would remain a private matter when he was running for President of the United States? Hello, the National Enquirer had already broken the story last fall. Why in fact, did she knowingly encourage her spouse to even enter the campaign when she had been fully informed about the affair for over a year? And she helped support and propagate John Edwards’ image as a devoted husband and family man.
She was so supportive that she even remained committed to his campaign after the discovery of her metastasized breast cancer. Despite the fact that she was facing a terminal illness, she was willing to take flack for her belief that John Edwards’ presidential campaign was so important that not even her own health should stand in the way of its proceeding.
Elizabeth Edwards is now protesting in her own public statement that the public appetite to ‘know” is the real culprit in the situation. The ‘public’ is being voyeuristic in her view and is getting in the way of her family’s right to privacy.
Meanwhile, A Friend Tells CBS John Edwards is the Father of Rielle Hunter’s Baby. In the interview, Pigeon O’Brien, a friend to Rielle Hunter, tells Maggie Rodriguez John Edwards is still lying about the affair.
Edwards blamed his moral failure partly on EGO – growing out of his campaigns:
- He said he told his wife about the affair in 2006 – BEFORE announcing – in New Orleans – his run for the white house:
- Two months earlier – he had traveled to UGANDA – accompanied by freelance photographer Rielle Hunter:
- Hunter made web videos for his campaign:
- His political action committee paid her company at least 100-thousand dollars.
- When he confessed to his wife, John Edwards said, “SHE WAS MAD, SHE WAS ANGRY, I THINK FURIOUS WOULD BE A GOOD WAY TO DESCRIBE IT. IT WAS PAINFUL FOR HER.”
- Five months later his wife found out that she had a recurrence of her breast cancer not expected to be curable.
I would begin by watching webisode 4 with John Stewart and John Edwards together, that is the one not in circulation and reportedly locked with a password before it was snatched up.
Now Here’s what we know about the mistress…
“EXTRA” SPOKE TO HUNTER ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE ONE-TIME PRESIDENTIAL
In early 2007, “Extra” spoke to Rielle Hunter, the 42-year-old filmmaker who Senator John Edwards admits to having a sexual relationship with. His admission today to ABC news comes weeks after The National Enquirer claims they caught Edwards visiting Hunter and their love child at a Los Angeles hotel. Edwards denies fathering a child
Hunter was reportedly paid $114,000 to produce a series of Internet video for Edwards, about meeting him she says, “Meeting John Edwards was interesting. He was very real and authentic. He was inspirational to me,” Hunter, who reportedly met Edwards in a New York bar, says she approached him with an idea to produce a series of Internet campaign videos. She explains, “It was a random meeting. He was in a business meeting in New York and I was in the same place.”
Hunter tells “Extra” that she hoped the videos produced by her production company, Midline Grove, would help change Edwards’ “Ken Doll” image declaring, “One of the great things about John Edwards is that he is so open and willing to try new things and do new things in new ways.” She adds, “I’m pretty courageous by nature and I really felt like I could help in some way.”
Hunter reveals to “Extra” that she traveled with Edwards for six months and spent a great deal of time with him saying, “I was around him a lot. It was great. We went to Africa. The whole experience was life altering for me.”
For footage from “Extra’s” one-one-one with Rielle Hunter, go here
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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – “Saturday Night Live” continues to go on a ratings tear, thanks in part to another appearance by Tina Fey as Sarah Palin and Chris Parnell as presidential debate moderator Jim Lehrer. “SNL” was the highest-rated program of the night on broadcast TV.
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